PDF4NET Releases
Released: May 1, 2025
Updates in 15.0.2
Features
PDF4NET.Render
- Now convert a PDF page to an image of fixed size.
Fixes
PDF4NET
- Zero length comb fields were not filled correctly.
- PDF/A-1B validation did not report /CA 1 as error.
PDF4NET.Render
- Renderlist was not converted correctly to image the 2nd time if page rotation is not 0.
Released: Apr 1, 2025
Updates in 15.0.1
Fixes
PDF4NET
- Fixed ActualText which is ignored when text is extracted with PDFContentExtractor.ExtractVisualObjects method.
- Fixed some Khmer text that was not shaped correctly.
- Fixed text that could not be wrapped when a line is empty.
PDF4NET.Render
- Fixed JPEG image which could not be decoded.
Released: Mar 1, 2025
Updates in 15.0.0
Features
PDF4NET
- Added Right-to-Left text.
- Added complex scripts: Arabic, Bengali, Devanagari, Hebrew, Khmer, Tamil, Thai etc.
Fixes
PDF4NET
- Visual bounds of extracted path object were not correct when a scale transform is active.
- File could not be loaded if /Length key was missing from XRef stream.
- Some TIFF images were not loaded correctly.
- Uncompressed 16bit TIFF images were not decoded correctly.
- Flattened PDF forms were damaged if they were reloaded and FlattenFields is called again.
- TIFF...
Released: Feb 3, 2025
Updates in 14.2.4
Fixes
- Fixed error with a document that couldn't be loaded.
- Fixed an issue with text not being able to be extracted from a PDF page.
- Position of extracted text and search results is incorrect when TextScaling operator is used.
- Fixed an issue with 3D annotations which could not be activated in Acrobat.
- External changes to COS font dictionaries are not preserved during save.
Released: Jan 1, 2025
Updates in 14.2.3
Features
PDF4NET
- PDF name objects are now handled as UTF8 strings.
Fixes
PDF4NET
- Optional content is now extracted correctly from PDF page.
- PDF name objects with Japanese content are now decoded correctly.
PDF4NET.Render
- Japanese text is now displayed when text uses some Japanese fonts that are not embedded.
- Some characters are now displayed when converting PDF pages to images.
Released: Dec 2, 2024
Updates in 14.2.2
Features
- Added Microsoft .NET 9 support.
Fixes
PDF4NET
- Default appearance for digital signature does not use the specified font.
- Compressed XMP metadata in existing PDF file is not saved correctly.
- Document's /AF entry is not preserved.
- TrueType font name is not generated correctly when the font is not embedded.
- Page cannot be extracted from PDF file.
- Document cannot be loaded because page has invalid MediaBox and CropBox entries.
PDF4NET.Render
- 1bpc RGB images are not rendered correctly.
- Some...
Released: Nov 1, 2024
Updates in 14.2.1
Features
- PDF4NET.Render
- Support for user defined page rendering area.
Fixes
- PDF4NET
- PDF417 barcodes cannot be created in some situations.
- Content cannot be extracted from PDF page.
- PDF4NET.Render
- Page cannot be rendered when an image has an invalid soft mask.
- CJK text using /STSong-Light-Indentity-H font is not displayed.
Released: Oct 1, 2024
Updates in 14.2.0
Features
- PDF4NET
- Page content analyzers - fast read-only page content stream parsers for implementing page content analyses.
- Enhanced contextual operator information for page transforms and page analyses.
Fixes
- PDF4NET
- Page with annotations cannot be extracted from source file.
- Some extended ASCII characters are not displayed correctly when using Apple TrueType fonts.
- PDF4NET.Render
- Page cannot be rendered because text uses unsupported encoding.
- Page is not rendered when it contains patterns...
Released: Sep 2, 2024
Updates in 14.1.3
Fixes
- PDF4NET
- The PDF document ID is not saved correctly.
- Document with invalid ink annotation cannot be loaded.
- Some Apple TrueType fonts cannot be loaded.
- PDF4NET.Render
- Pages with images rendered at low resolutions do not look good.
- Page with large patterns is not rendered correctly.
- Page with incomplete JPEG20000 image cannot be rendered.
Released: Aug 1, 2024
Updates in 14.1.2
Fixes
- PDF4NET
- 2bpp indexed image cannot be extracted as System.Drawing.Bitmap.
- Uncompressed B/W TIFF image is converted as negative to PDF.
- Text cannot be extracted from PDF page.
- Position of some extracted text is incorrect.
- PDF4NET.Render
- Text using invalid fonts is not rendered correctly.